Rush Limbaugh: Jay Carney links taxes, shooting

Rush Limbaugh said Monday that an “over-the-top-shameless” White House press secretary Jay Carney was politicizing the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting to raise taxes on the rich.

Speaking to reporters from the White House on Monday, Carney said that President Barack Obama’s insistence to raise taxes on the wealthiest of 2 percent of Americans was an important revenue stream so as not to put burden on “senior citizens or on middle class Americans or on parents with disabled children.”

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The conservative commentator’s take?

“This is just over-the-top-shameless,” he said on his radio program Monday, according to a show transcript. “Let me spell it out for you, what Jay Carney said: If we don’t raise taxes on the rich, a lot — if we don’t really raise rates on the rich — then we’re gonna have more and more Adam Lanzas, because we’re gonna be putting a tax burden on middle-class families with disabled children.”

Authorities believe Adam Lanza, 20, was the gunman in the shooting that left 26 people — twenty of them children — dead Friday in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. There have been reports that Lanza might have had psychological problems.

Limbaugh continued: “Now, to this day, at this point — December 17th — ‘disabled children’ means ‘Adam Lanza.’ It means ‘Newtown, Connecticut.’”

Can this guy not see the writing on the wall? There are quite a few "middle of the road" voters who consider themselves to be conservative, (meaning cautious rather than radical anything), but who tend to be more frightened of demagogues like Rush and the talking heads calling themselves "Patriots" and other self-serving labels.

Those that love America listen and think before they speak. Those worth listening to speak with a soft voice and with credible ideas, (an intellectual 'big stick'); generally speaking, the louder the screech, the lesser the value of the speaker.

In the case of Mr Limbaugh, his value is indeterminate, to call him a cautionary tale is being magnanimous. He is a voice of division and above all else, disrespect for any notion not his own, in a world that cries for tolerance.

If he was serious about furthering the cause of his party, he would simply shut up and disappear.

Maybe it's time to start treating Rush, Beck, and a few others as TROLLS. Don't feed them by repeating what they say. They can be opposed by publicizing their sponsors for boycotts and occasionally burning them in effigy, or covering effigies of them in drek and burying them, etc.

Speaking to reporters from the White House on Monday, Carney said that President Barack Obama’s insistence to raise taxes on the wealthiest of 2 percent of Americans was an important revenue stream so as not to put burden on “senior citizens or on middle class Americans or on parents with disabled children.”

When does America get sensible enough to cut this pig off at the knees and send him back to being a radio weatherman or whatever...........He offends me every day, every moment.........He should show some shame, some remorse for what happened and yet again, this pig talks about MONEY...........I loathe him.Mr. Limbaugh--walk into any church you can find and pray for your dead soul....

When will the Republican Party disassociate themselves from this hypocritical pill popping waste of a human!!! Only this sick, twisted f'er could turn this tragedy into something other than what it really is. He is pond scum. I wish he would die a slow agonizing death.

Although I consider Limbaugh to be the Howard Stern/Jerry Springer of political commentary, more like entertainment, this moron may have a valid point.

However, how is it that Limbaugh didn't equate misguided Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) as an “over-the-top-shameless”-Republican-hack-for-the-NRA ?

Republican Rep. Gohmert was quoted saying on Fox News, “I wish to God she [the school principal from the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut] had an M-4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands but she takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,”

Gohmert has the NRA inserted so far up his keister that he doesn't even think straight. According to him, and I'm sure Limbaugh, everyone should be packing heat. Imagine the day when the NRA and its (mostly) Republican and Democratic cronies have their way - at the sound of a pop, be it from a book dropping on the school hallway floor, or some kid popping his gum too loud, or a graduation balloon exploding, or even a chem lab experiment gone awry - all teachers and administrators will file into the school armory with SWAT-like precision to arm themselves with assault weapons much like Rambo or Schwarzenegger do. Just out of curiosity, will the school district fund the effort, will the teachers pay for it themselves - like they already do with most school supplies -, will we have to increase property taxes to pay for them (I can hear the Republicans squeal now)? Will we have to vote on a bond measure? I say we do like comedian Chris Rock suggests. Make bullets so prohibitively expensive that irresponsible idiots with guns will have to put their bullets on layaway to pay for them. Charge $5000 a bullet! They may just think twice about letting bullets fly ruthlessly killing innocents.

I'll give Limbaugh props for getting this one right but what's good for the goose is good for the gander. He should have called Gohmert out on his comments.

Rush Limbaugh is a hate monger extraordinaire who would never think to stop his vileness for any reason except if he thought his audience would not like it. There is NOTHING he wouldn't say to keep his ratings going. And so, when we think about what is really wrong in our country that needs fixing, the deficit probably comes to mind. But what really should be out there are the likes of this hate spewer and all the damage he does. The man has absolutely no conscience whatsoever.

Rush Limbaugh is a hate monger extraordinaire who would never think to stop his vileness for any reason except if he thought his audience would not like it. There is NOTHING he wouldn't say to keep his ratings going. And so, when we think about what is really wrong in our country that needs fixing, the deficit probably comes to mind. But what really should be out there are the likes of this hate spewer and all the damage he does. The man has absolutely no conscience whatsoever.